
The files here contain the replication data and codes to reproduce all empirical results in the following paper: Lei, Zhenhuan and Li, Yishuang. 2023. Making Local Courts Work: The Judicial Recentralization Reform and Local Protectionism in China. 

.do files (in the "dofiles" file):
(1) 1_des_stat.do: reproduce Table 1, and Table B2 in the appendix.
(2) 2_case_analysis.do: reproduce Table 2, Figure 3 and Table B4, Table C1 to C12, and Figure C1 in the appendix.
(3) 3_city_analysis.do: reproduce Table A1, Table A2, Table B1, Table B3 in the appendix.
(4) 4_fiscal.do: reproduce Table D1 to Table D4, Figure D1 in the appendix.
(5) 5_alternative.do: reproduce Table E1 to Table E6 in the appendix.
(6) 6_expenditure.do: reproduce Figure B1 in the appendix	
(5) 7_crosscountries.do: reproduce Figure 1 and Figure A2 in the appendix. 

.dta files (in the "source" file):
(1) city_fiscal.dta: data on city-level expenditure that will be used to measure the reform year
(2) firm_case.dta: data on listed firms' lawsuits
(3) Listed_Firms_V2.dta: data on listed firms' basic characteristics, used as control variables mostly
(4) Firm_Connection.dta: data on listed firms' political connections
(5) city_pro_panel.dta: dataset for city-level and province-level socioeconomic control variables
(6) city_exp.dta: cities' expenditure on courts
(7) court_exp.dta: Courts' expenditure data on different spending categories
(8) reform_pro_fund.dta: data on provinces' reform year
(9) city_panel.dta: data on city officials
(10) pro_exp.dta: data on provincial governments' fiscal expenditure
(11) p5v2018.dta: Polity5 project data (2018)
(12) wgidataset.dta: Worldwide Governance indicators from the World Bank

